Although there is a growing body of literature concerned with the adoption of
agile software development within a large organization, there is still very little in terms of
empirical research of practice. This research ...

The purpose of this study is to examine the drivers behind the certification of project managers in Irish organisations, to identify the benefits and drawbacks of project management certification and to determine whether ...

A recent trend has seen the significant growth of governments outsourcing IT projects to private sector partners. However, despite the high risk of failure in public sector IT projects, the literature on outsourcing risks ...

Businesses are increasingly operating in extremely turbulent
environments necessitating the need to respond and adapt to change more
quickly and improve overall time to market. From an Information Systems
Development ...

The growth and popularity of e-commerce has both challenged and enabled public sector organizations to redefine their levels of service. In the late 1990¿s E-government provided unparalleled opportunities for governments ...

This paper presents a number of observations and findings from an ongoing study of supply chain
transformation in a subsidiary of American Power Conversion (APC) located in the West of Ireland.
The study is being carried ...

Agile software development methods have emerged in recent years and have become increasingly popular since the start of the century. While much research claims to study agile methods, the meaning of agility itself in ...

eGovernment promises more efficient services and a more responsive government. Despite substantial investment, increasing failure rates have prompted critics to argue that policy makers are not achieving this vision. ...

This paper discusses an innovative focus group approach used to
study an Information Systems Development (ISD) environment. The research
had to cope with the application of a broad framework, untested in practice,
seeking ...

This paper aims at examining how firms create and capture value with open source software (OSS).
OSS is seen as an excellent exemplar of both peer production and open innovation. Nevertheless, the
use of OSS as a form ...

Collaborative Learning (CL) is increasingly being used in Distance Education (DE), as it has been
identified as an effective solution to known weaknesses such as high average rates of dropout and low
quality of learning ...